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    The American Police

    Featuring Khalil Gibran Muhammad On this hour-long episode of NPR podcast Throughline, Harvard professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad discusses the historic… READ MORE

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    Slavery by Another Name

    Directed by Sam Pollard This PBS documentary, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by the same name by Douglas A.… READ MORE

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    Reconstruction: America After the Civil War

    Directed by Julia Marchesi Henry Louis Gates Jr. presents a vital new four-hour documentary series on Reconstruction: America After the… READ MORE

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    13th

    Directed by: Ava DuVernay What does it mean to be a criminal? This documentary investigates the racial disparities in the… READ MORE

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    Hidden Figures

    Margot Lee Shetterly, 2016 This book documents and highlights the work of Black women who worked as mathematicians at NACA… READ MORE

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The Lakefront Historian is a group blog written by graduate students and scholars associated with the Loyola University Chicago Public History Program. Content includes reviews of historical sites and institutions, commentary on the public consumption of history, thoughts on public history theory and practice, and news about public history careers.

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